"Granting this carve-out to churches might seem narrow, but the exemption would lay the groundwork for future efforts to expand partisan activity across the nonprofit sector," Marie Ellis of the ...

There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or religion.

For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention ...

In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...

Interview with Doug Pagitt of Vote Common Good about the new IRS ruling that pastors can endorse candidates from the pulpit.

That’s what the IRS now claims, in a reversal from Biden-era positions. Could this embolden critics of religious liberty?

Ohio churches are having mixed reactions to news that the Internal Revenue Service will relax enforcement of the ban on ...

In a proposed legal settlement, the Internal Revenue Service has agreed that it will abandon enforcement of longstanding ...

A policy change by the Trump administration could have large impacts on churches throughout Montana and the country. And in a ...

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader. It banned all tax-exempt organizations like churches and charities from ...

In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...